Friday, September 10, 2010

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Stochastic Claims Reserving Methods in Insurance

August 19, 2010

Product DescriptionClaims reserving is central to the insurance industry. Insurance liabilities depend on a number of different risk factors which need to be predicted accurately. This prediction of risk factors and outstanding loss liabilities is the core for pricing insurance products, determining the profitability of an insurance company and for considering the financial strength (solvency) [...]

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Governing Mandatory Health Insurance: Learning from Experience

August 17, 2010

Product DescriptionMandatory health insurance schemes are being proposed or expanded in many developing countries, but with relatively little attention to how they should be governed. This book considers how five dimensions of governance-coherent decision-making structures, stakeholder participation, transparency and information, supervision and regulation, and consistency and stability-influence the coverage, financial protection, and efficiency of mandatory [...]

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Financial Theory of Pricing Property-Liability Insurance Contracts

August 15, 2010

Financial Theory of Pricing Property-Liability Insurance Contracts

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Maximizing Your Health Insurance Benefits: A Consumer’s Guide to New and Traditional Plans

August 13, 2010

Product DescriptionThis comprehensive guide is designed to help consumers understand the American health insurance system so that they can obtain the benefits to which they are entitled. The book covers both new and traditional health insurance plans, including individual and group policies, HMOs and other types of managed care plans, self-funded plans, Medicare, Medicare HMOs, [...]

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Risk Management and Insurance

August 11, 2010

Product DescriptionThe terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001 and the Enron scandal both highlighted the importance of risk management and insurance. Giving particular attention to the market’s increased sense of vulnerability and the newest technologies, Risk Management and Insurance provides a clear introduction to the complexities of this field. With chapters on topics such as [...]

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Structuring the Information Age: Life Insurance and Technology in the Twentieth Century

August 9, 2010

Product DescriptionStructuring the Information Age provides insight into the largely unexplored evolution of information processing in the commercial sector and the underrated influence of corporate users in shaping the history of modern technology. JoAnne Yates examines how life insurance firms — where good record-keeping and repeated use of massive amounts of data were crucial — [...]

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Life and Health Insurance Marketing

August 7, 2010

Life and Health Insurance Marketing

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Take the Stairs: Leadership Lessons Learned From a Lifetime of Service with Auto- Owners Insurance Company

August 5, 2010

Product DescriptionThere’s no elevator to the top! In the world of business, and in your personal life, there are no shortcuts to success. In this book the author who is chairman and chief – executive officer of Auto- Owners Insurance, shares a powerful prescription for becoming a leader and achieving your most meaningful goals…. More [...]

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False Security: Greed & Deception in America’s Multibillion-Dollar Insurance Industry

August 1, 2010

Product DescriptionInsurance is affordable protection for ourselves, our loved ones, and our belongings. As most people maintain some kind of insurance, it is also an extremely lucrative industry, generating billions of dollars annually. Investigative reporter Kenneth D Meyers thinks that the profits have turned the insurance industry into a bad business. In “False Security”, Myers [...]

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J.K. Lasser’s Choosing the Right Long-Term Care Insurance

July 28, 2010

Product DescriptionA PRACTICAL GUIDE TO THE COMPLICATED ISSUE OF LONG-TERM CARE INSURANCE “Next to buying the right long-term care insurance, buying and reading J.K. Lasser’s Choosing the Right Long-Term Care Insurance is the best investment seniors and their families can make to help insure independence and dignity in their golden years.” –Scott Harshbarger, President and [...]

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